Background*

Mr. Thomas R. Watjen, also known as Tom, has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Unum Group since March 31, 2003. Mr. Watjen serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Provident Life Capital Corporation. He serves as President of Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co. He served as the Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Unum Group from May 15, 2002 to March 2003. He served as Executive Vice President, Finance of Unumprovident Corp. since June 30, ... 1999 and assumed additional Risk Management responsibilities on November 1, 1999. He served as Chief Financial Officer of Provident since March 26, 1997. He served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of a Provident predecessor company since July 1994. Prior to America, Mr. Watjen served as a Managing Director of the insurance practice of the investment banking firm, Morgan Stanley & Co., which he joined in 1987. He was a partner with Conning & Co. and in the corporate finance areas of Aetna Life and Casualty. He serves as Chairman and Director of Unum Limited. He served as Vice Chairman of Provident since March 26, 1997. He has been a Director of Unum Group since 2002. He has been a Director of SunTrust Banks, Inc. since April 2010. He served as a Director of American Council of Life Insurers. Mr. Watjen joined The Financial Services Roundtable, and in 2004 was elected to the Board of Directors for America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). He served as Director of Unumprovident Finance Company Plc. In 2005. He has been member of the VMI Foundation since 2003. Mr. Watjen attended the Virginia Military Institute where he earned a bachelor's in economics in 1976. He holds a Master's In Business Administration from the Darden School at the University of Virginia in 1981.

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